What to learn after my ABC's...

This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by jmackenzie: 14.12.2008 19:58.

Over the last 6 months since ive found poker I have been pretty much learning how to play ABC poker against unknown players.

While this has been good practise, it doesnt help you to achieve the best possible winrate and only really works well on fishes.

I want to start to learn to adapt my play to different players and practise picking up reads rather than using a HUD, I thought the best way to do this would be to start playing hu sng's on pokerstars.

I deposited $100 last week and also $20 via player transfer, (thanks goes out to cardbender so i didnt have to wait for the deposit
), anyways since last week ive played 100 games and it went pretty well

My main goals are
1. to adapt my play to gain the most value out of my oppenents
2. to learn to play different board textures.
3.To find a game type to stick with and learn all I can about it.

While these goals arnt really money orientated im still going to use a fairly agessive brm of 30/20 (move up with 30 stacks / down with 20 remaining).

Ive now got $156 roll and will be moving to $5.25 hu sng's soon.

I will post an updated graph each week and hopefully get a hand converter to post some interesting hands that i play during my sessions

Thought I would go an check this statement out. I played 15 $2 HU sng yesteray winning 13. Not bad. I won a couple of flips, but I can confidently say that I got my money in with the best hand in both of my losses.

As for your project here jmackenzie - I wish you the best of luck. Think I will hit the $2 HU sng again next weekend when the fishes are most.

This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by jmackenzie: 10.12.2008 20:49.

@lennert9

First off ive only had this happen to me once in which I got pocket jacks pretty early on so, easy call. (I lost ofc.
), but aslong as the blinds arnt relatively high compared to your stack size you can wait for fairly decent hands.

If say for example chips counts were around 1500 for each player with blinds of 10/20 I would actually play fairly nitty with a range of A8+ 77+

Seeing as youd get these hands 1/10 times you wouldnt be blinded down too much that often before you have a pretty big edge against your opponents any2.

This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by jmackenzie: 14.12.2008 00:18.

Been another week my br has grown steadily again, now stands at $254.

But other than that my week has been quite bad actually. My goal of becoming a gold member fast was stopped short, by my lame laptop thats decided to freeze literally every 5 mins when I play more than 2 tables.

I initially thought it was due to pokerstars as it wasnt happening with any other programs at the time. I was thinking of moving over to FTP for awhile, then decided to wait till I can take full advantage of the $600 first deposit bonus when (and if
) I get there. So I decided to go towards partypoker. I withdrew all the cash from stars in the thought that I could play sss and hu sng's lag free how wrong I was...

The $6 hu sng's have a wopping %20 rake so that obv wasnt gunna work out too well, and when playing sss with more than 4 tables my laptop started freezing every 5 mins so im kinda stuck in a dilema.

Today I decided to make use of some of my fpp and play some satellites I won a seat to the sunday 200k and a seat in a $35 ept sng. I cashed out the sunday 200k for tourney dollars and found that I couldnt cash out of the ept sat. so I played and lost.

Thanks to this, my sharkscope graph looks bloody awfull lol which is why I prob wont be posting it for quite some time.

So i am going to either

1.Get laptop sorted
2.Find a way to make enough points for gold member by playing under 4 tables
3.Get a new comp/laptop (could be kinda hard as im a full-time student/full-time bum)

While looking through the video section to watch a sss video to help get back in swing with playing, I stumbled across tribuns nl sh video series from low to midstakes, which I had put a few suggestions in a thread he made seeing what people wanted in the vidoes, so i decided to watch it. I have to say hats off to you tribun that was one good video.

After watching I decided I had to give nl 10 sh a try and im loving it ALOT!

don't lie man
It was 2-1 the 3rd you're talkin about didn't count. Anyway I'll make it 2-3 very soon.
Just let me know when and how do you want it
.
I can beat you in 3hands like the last time we played

Had a great christmas this year but you can tell your getting older when all the prezzies your parents get you are clothes..

Ive also moved up a limit with sss from nl25--->nl50!

Got to $400 and decided to move up. Took a few days to get a database sorted out by which point I was at $420...

And so I started nl50.

I havnt mentioned this before in my blog but i have a stop-loss limit of 5 bi in which I take a day break and today I had to use it...

I've since checked over the lost hands to make sure I wasnt playing like a fish or something and actually it doesnt look too bad. The oppnenents on the other hand are bad lol! check out some of the hands...